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WIRED@wired.com · 5h ago

Progressive Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has won the Michigan senatorial primary election. El-Sayed, an epidemiologist and former health officer for Detroit, ran on promises to address his state’s dire public health crisis.

This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Social media was a terrible idea

In retrospect you have to ask who wrote the email saying: “We want to pitch a data center in Wisconsin Rapids? Get me Eric Adams, pronto!” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

hellgatenyc.com

Also, according to documents we received, Adams has a new personal email address that's really funny. And this is how the event ended for Adams. Another great weekend for Mayor Adams!

Like seriously wtf yo

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2d ago

This past weekend, former Mayor Eric Adams was in Wisconsin Rapids—population 18,654—trying to convince residents that they should allow a real estate developer to build a data center in the heart of their town. The public hearing did not go well. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

If Clay Travis agrees to never again speak into a microphone on camera when he inevitably loses, they should definitely take him up on this offer.

Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d ago

What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

So Trump and McMahon now are trying the velvet glove approach to get universities to submit. It’s just a watered down version of the compact they tried to impose last year. No self-respecting university should comply. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter (Gift Article)

The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.

nytimes.com

The end goal is shaming all girls out of sports.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Anyone else watched the polygamist?

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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

When the abusers say those things, it's a marriage of convenience between gaslighting and DARVO. (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Abuser, a standard abuser rhetorical approach that is also how the Trump Administration operates, with government as gaslighting abuser.)

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

Goddammit.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

Somebody DO something!!!!!!!!

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4d ago

Do y’all understand this means that next month is SEPTEMBER???????

It would perhaps be warranted that we take a sociological, or even occupational ethnographical approach to the question: Why has reading been chosen as the first thing commercial AI developers will try to automate out of existence?

Actual accelerationists

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

nytimes.com

I am sincerely happy for everyone involved in all of this. God bless them, it’s like twitter 2017. If this be our swan song, so be it.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d ago

medium specificity, close reading and hot take reading, classicist on classicist friction, "all of civilization would collapse in punishment" keep it up! slate.com/culture/2026...

"Those parents grew up to be the political gerontocracy: absentee parents of a latchkey nation." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

Are any of yall or any outlets doing a deep dive on drug and food recalls or US food systems right now? Because...

🎶Fifty nifty shitnited states from 13 original colonies…🎶

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7d ago

USA: "More than 18,000 Cyclosporiasis cases reported across 45 states: CDC" "Health officials have linked some of these cases to shredded iceberg lettuce served at some Taco Bell restaurants in 9 states... The lettuce at Taco Bell was supplied by Taylor Farms and sourced from central Mexico."

Burning books in order to better burn the environment, total civilizational death drive

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

It’s crazy that in the centuries since the creation of the printing press that helped to democratize knowledge, these people were like, you know, it was a great idea to hoard all knowledge and reason from the masses and run the world like city state fiefdoms, yeah, let’s go back to the middle ages.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

And then class, humanity poured all its resources, its water, its books, the very air they breathed, into making the magic money machine and as we all know this started the second dark age as the machine did in fact, not do anything useful

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Saeed is so brilliant and funny and I am so ready to lock in on this contribution to the Odyssey discourse

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

“My hot take is that Odysseus is the film’s protagonist but Penelope and Telemachus are the only heroes.”